I am sure some US hardliners see the map and wonder how is this country still independent.
These positions are not defensible from military perspective.
You want to know why Canada still exists despite having a fraction of the manpower or military of the United States?
It’s because the United States likes Canada. We think they’re fun to have around.
That’s an abstract question to try to answer; it’s not like we sit around and ponder about y’all for hours on end but someone says “This is my friend Bill from Canada” and you just think “Oh cool.”
On a societal level, we share the world’s longest international border, we’re massive trade partners, like, most of the Northwestern hemisphere’s best comedians come from Canada…we like Canada, we think they’re fun to have around.
That took place entirely in the Great Lakes area. The other bit was still very, very Native.
Also, we like to take credit for that, but that was basically the British Empire fighting for one of it’s colonies, and IIRC most of the British soldiers involved were not from here.
No, we’re going back to the North Atlantic triangle days if the US goes funny like it appears to be going.
Touche but US capabilities are now that of a global empire, all of Canada is within few hundred mile from US border and its core literally cuts into the US while power disparity is wider than Ukraine/Russia.
Trump did call Trudeau governor of the great state of Canada yesterday and suggested it should become the 51st state a ~week ago
dude is too stupid to understand why he should not do it.
until i hear some GOP chaney and kissegeer types, i aint worried.
C’mon, it even looks like a rifle
Who would be insane enough to invade a country, that already looks like a weapon?
Could have just included the Ontario part snd Vancouver Island and it would still be true lol.
? It’s just a fact. The urban agglomeration commonly known as Vancouver (any of them) is not on the large, west-coast island known as Vancouver island.
I suspect you’re trolling.
Well he landed there. But he’s not there now, not for a while. Nor the town: that’s on the mainland (aka the Big Island with Moncton and New Denver on it) .
Fun fact: there’s a Victoria Island but Victoria isn’t there either, the person nor the town.
There are 4 variations on the word but none end in -le.
https://quebeccity101.com/tabarnak-tabarnac-tabernak-or-tabernac/
I think that if climate change causes a lot of snow in the north to melt, it will create a lot of new arable space further north that people could potentially migrate to (even from other countries, eg climate migrants from the inhabitable equator)
(disclaimer: never been to Canada)
It would probably be extremely swampy for a long time. All that time it would release a tremendous amount of methane.
I mean, it’s already swampy. Canada has the band of current habitability shown, followed by muskeg (frozen swamp) and boreal forest for most of it’s area, followed by a strip of tundra along the coast (and continuing into all those giant uninhabited islands). Swamps are actually carbon fixers, though; it’s the process of a swamp drying out and the exposed plant matter rotting that’s the problem.
The tundra bit has permafrost that will thaw and rot into pretty pure methane, which is bad, but that’s in line to become new boreal forest next rather than new farmland.
Sounds to me like a great energy opportunity, natural gas is totally green energy right? /s
We’ve been choked by forest fire smoke every summer for a few years now. I hear some of the boreal forest that burned down is coming back as plains. Also, interestingly, we never stopped clearing new farmland around the high 50’s of latitude.
It’s really noticeable already as far north as I am. People will talk about how freakish the weather has been here, and then suddenly get quiet if anyone says “climate” instead of “weather” because it’s oil country and they still want to be on the denier train. Man, humanity is depressing sometimes.
The flip side is that the traditional breadbasket areas in the center-west of this strip are basically turning into desert.
I feel bad for them. They’ve got a shit lot in that they know they’re causing damage and they could stem that tide, but in doing so would have to give up what they know and have poured their lives into so far.
Not everyone’s ready to sacrifice their comfort or livelihoods for others and jump when there’s no guarantee they’ll be caught by the social safety net.
There will always be someone desperate and ready to deny the truth of their surroundings to fill the gap left, though.
That’s big of you. I can sympathise with someone who’s doing bad things, but when they’re intellectually dishonest about it as well I start feeling like glassing everything and letting life start over.
It’s just so damn hopeless. If that’s the level we’re at the atrocities will never stop, and we’ll keep blaming the other guy for it.
Canada is the north side of the st. Lawrence river, everything else is just that area’s backyard
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed BC’s cute lil wiener till now.